Pigs for slaughter in central Russia have risen in price by 18%
This week, world prices for pork in half-carcasses increased by an average of 0.4%. Pork still appreciably more expensive in the US at 6.9% per week and 17.5% per month. In Canada, there is also a 1.2% increase in prices. Compared to the level of a month ago, world prices for pork decreased by an average of 2.0%. Most of all in Canada by 15.2%. Russian pork this week has become more expensive by 0.6%, and for the month it… 
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service has published updated forecasts for yields and stocks of cereals (wheat, barley and corn) in foreign markets (https://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/Grain%20and%20Feed%20Annual_Moscow_Russian%20Federation_4-23-2018.pdf). 
Domestic prices for wheat, which began to increase sharply in mid-March, last week continued to grow. So, wheat of the 3rd class in the central part of Russia during the last week went up by 300 rubles ($ 4.79) up to 9.5 thousand rubles / ton ($ 151.75), 4-th class - almost 500 rubles ($ 7.99) up to 8,5 thousand rubles / t ($ 135.78), 5-th class - 610 rubles ($ 9.74) up to 7.1 thousand rubles per ton ($… 
Information and educational portal 'Education in Russia' published a rating of the best universities in Russia. The rating is based on the performance indicators of the university as domestic statistical agencies and foreign experts in the field of education. Omsk State Agrarian University (member of Omsky Biocluster) took 179 place among 695 surveyed universities of the country. There are 23 places among the universities of the Siberian Federal District , agrarian universities - 20, Omsk - at the second. 
The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia does not plan to conduct state procurement interventions in the milk market this year, Minister Alexander Tkachev told journalists in Moscow on April 25, the TASS news agency reported. 
Ticks woke up in Omsk region, there are already the first victims. Last year, more than 3,500 people were affected by the tick bite in the region. Of these, 30 people were infected with viral encephalitis. 
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Omsk region summed up the development of the livestock sector in 2017. 
April 16-20, a group of specialists of SIBAGROCOMPLEX Group (member of Omsky Biocluster, one of the co-founders of the Interregional Center for Agro Industry Engineering) visited the enterprises of Kemerovo region: Udarnik Poley JSC, Lebedi LLC, Okunevskoye Milk LLC, Temp LLC (Promyshlennovsky district), Yurginsky LLC and Yurginsky Agrary LLC (Yurga district), Zinchenko Farm (Belovsky district), Slavino JSC and Vpered LLC (Novokuznetsk district), Gorskinskoe LLC (Guryevsky district).